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	<title>Best Practices for Legal Education</title>
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		<title>Collaborative Externships Update</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/10/22/collaborative-externships-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmaranville</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/?p=907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost seven  months ago I blogged about the the Laurel Rubin Rural Externship Advocacy Project sponsored by the Washington State Access to Justice and the Law School&#8217;s committee.   Externship Collaborations
In June the Project was formally launched at the WA Access to Justice Conference, the first cohort of students, one from each of the Washington law [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=907&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Orientation Programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmaranville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices & Curriculum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Year Law School Innovations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Who is Using the Best Practices Book?]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/?p=444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A fun aspect of getting a few gray hairs: we might be around long enough to see our ideas come to fruition.   Some years ago I wrote about the important role of experiential learning in providing context for law students.  Passion, Context, and Lawyering Skills: Choosing Among Simulated and Real Clinical Experiences, 7 Clin. L. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=444&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International Perspective on Best Practices Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dmaranville</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/?p=1073</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I bet some of you missed the fact that October 5th is World Teachers&#8217; Day.  Yeah for us!  Rah for the team!
The UK&#8217;s Centre for Legal Education&#8217;s Digital Directions notes that the Best Practices blog is the only blog &#8220;focused on legal education as their primary theme.&#8221;    We&#8217;ll be delighted when we no longer hold [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1073&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Myers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Who is Using the Best Practices Book?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Burwell Garvey, of Franklin Pierce Law Center and Anne F. Zinkin, of the New Hampshire Supreme Court have published a paper entitled, &#8220;Making Law Students Client-Ready: A New Model in Legal Education.&#8221;   The primary focus of the paper is to detail the Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program, which among other advantages, allows successful graduates to bypass the traditional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1070&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carrie Kaas and Mary Lynch&#8217;s Best Practices Presentation, or NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/10/16/carrie-kass-and-mary-lynchs-best-practices-presentation-or-necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/10/16/carrie-kass-and-mary-lynchs-best-practices-presentation-or-necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ischarf</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Who is Using the Best Practices Book?]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/?p=1055</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Best Practices Presentation Oct. 15, 2009 at So. New England School of Law<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1055&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interdisciplinary Collaborative Education in Law Schools</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/10/14/interdisciplinary-collaborative-education-in-law-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/10/14/interdisciplinary-collaborative-education-in-law-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blissgsu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Who is Using the Best Practices Book?]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/?p=1052</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, we were fortunate to host a group of educators who are interested in interdisciplinary collaborative education in the form of partnerships between law schools and the health professions at a conference held at Georgia State University College of Law.  Antoinette Sedillo Lopez recently posted about collaborating with other departments in your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1052&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One BAR to rule them all?</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/10/14/one-bar-to-rule-them-all/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/10/14/one-bar-to-rule-them-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Myers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Practices, Outcomes & Assessment Techniques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catalysts For Change]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/?p=1047</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As LOTR fans rejoice over the title of this post, law students everywhere should be encouraging the efforts of Erica Moeser whose goal is to enlist states to adopt a universal bar exam.   I encourage everyone to take a look at the comments this post has received, here.  Students clearly like this idea.  Does a universal bar exam enjoy the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1047&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collaborating with Other Departments in the University</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/10/13/collaborating-with-other-departments-in-the-university/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/10/13/collaborating-with-other-departments-in-the-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antoinette Sedillo Lopez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Who is Using the Best Practices Book?]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/?p=1041</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Communication and Jounalism departments can help you with focus groups to get ideas from alumni and lawyers in your community about the skills and values students should learn in law school.  Medical school models of assessment can be great sources for skills based assessment.  University accreditation initiatives are likely to involve a review [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1041&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collaborative work on H1N1</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/10/07/collaborative-work-on-h1n1/</link>
		<comments>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/10/07/collaborative-work-on-h1n1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aliciaouellette</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague Mary Lynch asked me to share a project my bioethics students just completed.
I asked the 14 students in my Bioethics seminar to research the legal and ethical implications for Albany Law School of an H1N1 outbreak, and to work together to draft a memo outlining any policy changes the class would recommend to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1035&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SALT &amp; OTHERS COMMENT ON ABA OUTCOME MEASURES</title>
		<link>http://bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org/2009/10/07/salt-others-comment-on-aba-outcome-measures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mary Lynch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In  September of 2008, the ABA&#8217;s Council of the  Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Section (Council) began a comprehensive review of  the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for the Approval of Law Schools  relying on the work of the Standard&#8217;s Review Committee (SRC).   On October 9th, 2009, at the last of its currently [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bestpracticeslegaled.albanylawblogs.org&blog=1333490&post=1033&subd=bestpracticeslegaled&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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